rickardspaghetti wrote:1. We're not making sound changes for an entire language. Just one word.

This is where I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the game. You are making changes for the entire language, it's just that we're only viewing them on a single example word. It should be possible to take another word and run it through all the same steps as the example word.

2. "ʑ is devoiced". I could've said "all sibilants are devoiced" instead

rickardspaghetti wrote:1. We're not making sound changes for an entire language. Just one word.

This is where I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the game. You are making changes for the entire language, it's just that we're only viewing them on a single example word. It should be possible to take another word and run it through all the same steps as the example word.

Boy, this is getting tiresome. OK. We go with you then.

linguoboy wrote:

2. "ʑ is devoiced". I could've said "all sibilants are devoiced" instead

So why didn't you?

ʑ was the only one there. I didn't occur to me to write that all sibilants are devoiced.